literature review on the policy of affirmative action

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Affirmative Action

Affirmative action which was made for a very noble reason of social equality has in the long run emerged as the most disputatious of all the education policies in United States which are based on race and creed The very reason for the widespread discussion of this affirmative action has been the US society and its every single constituent have believed that this policy has personally affected them . The result of this has extended to inflated list of opinions

with debates being participated by a large number of people of every quarter . Irrespective of the personal choice of support or opposition , this concept have been of great importance to US citizens because of the possible impact of affirmative action on equality , justice , and democracy in the society and nation as a whole (Marable , 1995 ,

.185 . The affirmative action has been widely observed as a possible confrontation of people 's competing ethical values and moral vision and hence become a reason of controversy (Edley 1996 . The perception among the people has been that of the possible rise in the role of race and gender in the awarding of educational and employment opportunities . The controversy has made Colleges and University campuses across the nation as the center stage of all discussion and opinion building both in favor and against the policy affirmative action . The scaling back of various programs of affirmative action has seen protests of students who supported the policy with many university students California and Florida demanded their universities for noncompliance the ban on affirmative action (Selingo , 2000 Basinger , 1998 . There has been a firm belief that abolishing affirmative action in college admissions will actually cause deep erosion not only for campus communities but for every individual student who believe in the policy of affirmative action policies and the democratic ideals . But the discussion entailing these policies have depended least on the analysis of affirmative action policy while taking into account the factor which embodies the choice as a matter of social context among students (Kymlicka , 1991 ,

. 166 . The notion of a context coming out of the theory of contemporary liberal political theory has a say over the matter of choice . The traditional outlook of the liberal theory which has its transcendence on the Contemporary liberal theory has concerns of responsibilities of oppression and possible disadvantage within dominant societal structures . Liberalism has recognized the very importance of both individual and the culture and community affecting the overall development of the individual thereby acknowledging the essence of people 's cultural and social contexts framed by a society 's history and structures in interaction with a person 's cultural background (Kymlicka , 1991 . So the contemporary liberalism must be distinguished from the traditional strands of liberalism

The procedure of through following the regular and objective admissions has seen admissions on the ground of race and ethnicity as a matter of disgrace and perhaps the issue of contention between the two...